Stephen Chalkley 💙

[Ian Proud @proud_diplomat]

LIVE AT 1900 BST

I was detained for three hours by UK Counter-Terrorism police and had all my electronic devices taken from me. Diplomacy is now a crime. Britain is becoming totalitarian. Join me for the discussion:

https://t.co/9qxKvQEW2k

@georgegalloway @KitKlarenberg

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

UNLAWFUL ARREST

On Sunday, police forcefully detained and handcuffed a young man under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act. They stripped him of clothing while dragging him across the floor.

He had not committed any crime.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

https://t.co/uoZEC0bk8d

I have lost faith both in Western social democracy, and in the institutions of international law. As both have been fundamental to the work of my life, this is rather a blow as I approach 70.

A number of

[Aleksey The Great 🇷🇺🎖 @aleksthgrt]

🚨BREAKING NEWS

Germany has issued orders to 18-year-old men to undergo a mandatory medical examination for military service.

Protests have erupted in the country following this decision.

More than 45,000 students are taking to the streets in over 100 locations.

[Angel Van Lang (divergent)✊🇵🇸🇨🇺NATexit noWAR @angel_nowar]

CADE IL VELO SULLA STRAGE DI ODESSA!
La Cedu(Corte europea dei diritti dell’uomo)ha riconosciuto all’unanimità la responsabilità dell’Ucraina per il massacro dei civili russofoni il 2 maggio 2014 a Odessa. Il massacro fu fatto dalle stesse milizie che cui oggi l’EU(RSS)fornisce⏬

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

CHAOS IN LIVERPOOL

Here’s a whole minute of @MerseyPolice struggling to contain peaceful signholders, mostly pensioners, who police suspect of committing terrorism offences.

They’ve lost. It’s over. This law is unenforceable.

@UKLabour - Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

"Mistakes" = they lied to the world until video evidence was found.

The video? Medics being executed from 8 metres away and then buried with their ambulances.

Read that again.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

I am heading to the Court of Session in Edinburgh now for a full day hearing on the Scottish judicial review of Palestine Action.

It starts at 10.30am. If you can join me please do. If not please watch on livestream here
https://t.co/N2pY65Oijj

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Tomorrow morning at the court of session in Edinburgh from 10.30am.
The Palestine Action case holds vital questions of political freedoms
and fundamental constitutional questions about the independence of Scottish courts.
Please come along.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Donald Trump: "Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic, and do it quickly? Do I drive them into hell?"

The UK government has been letting this man bomb Iran from British bases👇

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

https://t.co/5gfzlcn4Jn

On Friday we have our appeal against the suspension of the Palestine Action judicial review in Scotland. Our legal crowdfunder has been closed down by the card processors following Trump’s designation of Palestine Action as a global terrorist organisation.

[🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉 @apocalypseos]

Jeffrey Sachs: a president stood at the UN and claimed the right to annihilate a civilization. Congress said nothing. That is the constitutional order collapsing in public.

“I shuddered then, and I shudder now that a president of the United States can stand at the podium of the UN General Assembly speaking to world leaders in a language of annihilation of other countries and of sending them to hell. It was ghastly, unprecedented, totally disgusting, disgraceful for the United States. But I would also say a measure of how broken the constitutional order of the United States is.

Trump basically said, like a madman, which I think arguably he is, that he and he alone will decide the survival of Iran. He said that he has a big, big choice to make. Maybe Iran will be a great country. Maybe Iran will be annihilated. Maybe Trump will send it to hell. And not only was the language vulgar in a way that I certainly could never in my lifetime have imagined coming from a president of the United States or anybody standing at the UN podium—because what Trump said was odious and completely in violation of every religious, moral, ethical, and legal standard that we have in this world—it was also a measure of the brazen collapse of our Constitution.

Is there a political system where one man decides the fate of another civilization? Is that how the American system works? Of course the answer is no. The founding fathers who rebelled against a mad King George III were very explicit in the Declaration of Independence, celebrated this year 250 years after its issuance. We’re in the 250th anniversary, one that Trump says is about our freedom. It was explicitly that King George arrogated, took on the authority to put the military above civil rule. And when the founding fathers wrote the US Constitution, they assigned specifically the power to declare war not to the commander-in-chief, but solely and exclusively—and not by choice, not if they care about it or want to or want to delegate it or not, but solely—to the United States Congress.

And Trump said yesterday he doesn’t care what the public thinks. He doesn’t care what the vote is. He says it doesn’t even cross my mind. And he said earlier this year, when he was asked, well, are there any limits on your power? He thought about it. He said Yes, my morality, but it’s my will. It’s what I want to do. Otherwise, no, there are no other limits.

What did our Congress do on that occasion? I can tell you, as we know, that the majority party in both houses simply remained silent. That is a violation of their sacred oath of office, which is to uphold the Constitution. Trump yesterday said he’s going to have the difficult choice of whether to annihilate, by the way, one of the most ancient civilizations in the world, 5,000 years old, twenty times older than the United States of America. And what did our Speaker of the House say? Well, he said nothing, of course. What did our Senate majority leader say? He said, of course, nothing. What did all of the party of the president of the United States say, the members of Congress? They said, of course, nothing. This is worse than the Roman Empire. There was a Senate that actually still said something. Our Senate says nothing.

We are so broken that not only do we have a madman in power, but there is no respect for our constitutional order. And the president can make statements as he made yesterday, unprecedented in the chamber of the General Assembly in front of the world leaders, speaking like the worst tyrant or gangster imaginable, and not a murmur from the Republican Party which dominates the House and the Senate. You know, I am not partisan. And a Democratic president who dared to be as absolutely mad and deranged as this president would probably find subservience in that party too. So I’m not even making a partisan point. I’m making a point about the collapse of our constitutional order.

Have we come to a point where one man, who I happen to think is utterly incompetent, utterly sociopathic, actually—when people are killed under his order, not a moment of reflection or remorse when 150 schoolgirls are murdered, and he knows the truth. He says, yeah, the Iranians probably did it. We’ll find out. No, not any control at all in our system of government.

So for me, you asked how I feel. I shudder at the last 24 hours, both at what the president said. It made my skin crawl. I was sitting there in the chamber listening to this madness. I mean it really, psychopathic madness, speaking in this way, with a vulgarity that is unimaginable. But then I’ve shuddered since then at the lack of response by the leaders, the majority leader of the US Senate, the Speaker of the House, Supreme Court justices, anybody to say no. In our system of government, it’s not one person who decides on the fate of another civilization.

We are a country, we say, first of all, of representation, and the American people are aghast at this. They oppose it overwhelmingly. They do not support this war of Netanyahu and Trump, which is a two-person war of murder and destruction and assassination of leaders of another country. They do not support it. And the constitutional order is that we are a representative government, and our representatives have an oath of office that only they can declare war. So where are they standing up to say No, you don’t have a penny to spend on this? We control the power of the purse. The tens or hundreds of billions of dollars that Trump has wasted of American income in this flagrant war of whim. Where is Congress to say you have no authority whatsoever to spend that because only we can decide on the spending and only we can declare war.

So this is the grim fact. It wasn’t just the awful statements. That was my first reaction. But then I thought, what have we come to when one person can make a statement like this and then remain essentially unchallenged in the United States system of government?”

Annihilation is not diplomacy. Congressional silence is not restraint. A constitutional republic cannot survive if one man claims the power to decide whether another civilization lives or dies.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Millions of Americans are learning for the first time about Israel’s genocidal “Where’s Daddy” targeting system, and the IDF’s policy of exterminating entire Gaza families in their homes while they sleep

[audrey White @RedRosa91940184]

Don’t allow this news be suppressed- please share

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

If you follow me, you have a 1 in 20 chance so far of having been shown my article on my visit to Ekaterinburg.
Link in reply.

Not just twitter. It is my most suppressed piece across all social media.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Your reminder that the father in law of Jonathan Hall, the UK's "Independent Assessor of Terrorism", is patron of UK Lawyers for Israel.

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

I$rael has destroyed yet another hospital in Lebanon, this time in Mays Al-Jabal in the south of the country.

This is part of a genocide being carried out by I$rael in Lebanon, as concluded in a report that slipped under the radar earlier this year by the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Drs Against Genocide.

Stay tuned for our film on this…

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

Ukraine has now lost more than 500 locomotives since the current conflict began

Crucially, 60% of these losses occurred in the last eight months. Currently, Kiev is losing an average of 37-40 locomotives per month, strikes are increasing.

Winter is coming.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

🔴Statement from the Lebanese Ministry of Health:

The Ministry of Public Health condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the barbaric crime committed by the Israeli enemy in burning down the Mays al-Jabal Governmental Hospital—an act constituting a flagrant and brutal assault.
This public healthcare facility—which the Ministry had diligently refurbished and equipped with state-of-the-art medical technology to serve as a lifeline and a safe haven for displaced residents and those steadfastly remaining in border areas—is now facing systematic destruction that reveals a profound moral bankruptcy and deep-seated criminality. The occupation forces did not merely occupy the facility previously and convert it into a military barracks; they have now gone so far as to burn it down completely, thereby depriving the people of the South of their most basic human rights to medical treatment and healthcare.

The Ministry asserts that targeting medical institutions and healthcare personnel constitutes a full-fledged war crime and a blatant violation of international conventions. It calls upon the international community, the World Health Organization, and the International Committee of the Red Cross to immediately break their suspicious silence and hold the occupation accountable for its repeated crimes against Lebanon’s health sector. Furthermore, the Ministry emphasizes that these criminal acts will not break the people's resolve; the Ministry remains committed to fulfilling its national and humanitarian duty and supporting the people of the South with all available resources, regardless of the sacrifices required.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

The UK arrested about 11,000 people for speech offences in the last 12 months, including 3,000 charged as terrorists for placards or T shirts.

Russia - a country actually at war - arrested about 800 people for speech offences in the same period.

Which is the appalling dictatorship?